The greatest please in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.
The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.
It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the world?
Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do.
You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning.
We cannot allow the bankruptcy of a euro member state like Greece to turn into a second Lehman Brothers.
I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.
Do what others do not do, Believe in what others do not believe, Feel what others cant feel, Become what others cannot be
I am not a witch doctor, and in fact, you cannot have a witch doctor. You are either a witch or a doctor.
We, Russia, are prepared to work with others. I am convinced that stability and security in Europe cannot be considered without taking Russia into account.
You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.
The E.U. cannot act as guardian of the post-Cold War status quo without risking a collapse of Europe's current institutional infrastructure.
A surgeon will cut off a limb in order to protect the body from disease. And a commander-in-chief should pull out of a war that cannot be won in order to protect a nation.
When anything in life is an absolute requirement for your happiness and self-worth, it is essentially an ‘idol,’ something you are actually worshiping. When such a thing is threatened, your anger is absolute. Your anger is actually the way the id...
To find out if there is actually such freedom one must be aware of one's own conditioning, of the problems, of the monotonous shallowness, emptiness, insufficiency of one's daily life, and above all one must be aware of fear. One must be aware of one...
It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong. And whoever attempts it, even with the best right, but without being OBLIGED to do so, proves that he is probably not only strong, but also daring beyond measure. ...
The Sunlight on the Garden The sunlight on the garden Hardens and grows cold, We cannot cage the minute Within its nets of gold, When all is told We cannot beg for pardon. Our freedom as free lances Advances towards its end; The earth compels, upon i...
